According to a website, located HERE, if you move the Xbox 360 while it is powered up, with a DVD inside that is spinning, many models will destroy the disc, like it did to mine. Here is a photo from the website I just found. The disc on the left looks exactly like mine does, with the mark going all the way around midway into the grooves of the disc.
So, mystery solved. I laid my Xbox flat while playing and it wrecked my disc as a consequence. It turns out that Microsoft saved money by deleting the rubber bumpers inside the drives that would prevent this from happening. Yay me and yay Microsoft.
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